This activity asks students to use real U.S. Energy Information Administration data to investigate Puerto Rico’s ongoing electricity crisis. Students begin by reading a public-facing article about power reliability in Puerto Rico, then use R and the tidyverse to clean, reshape, summarize, and visualize electricity outage data. By comparing Puerto Rico’s 2024 outage duration with the average across the 50 U.S. states, students practice core data science skills while seeing how data can communicate issues of infrastructure, inequality, and public concern. The final product is a polished stacked bar chart and written interpretation modeled after an authentic EIA visualization. The GitHub with source files: https://github.com/stats-tgeorge/PR_elect_activity.